[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] dbus cleanup

Scott Lawrence bytbox at gmail.com
Mon Dec 3 17:07:05 EST 2012


On Mon, 3 Dec 2012, Tom Gundersen wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Daniel F. Savarese <dfs at savarese.org> wrote:
>> If you merge the two packages, what am I supposed
>> to do?  I can't simply remove /usr/bin/dbus-launch and
>> /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/30-dbus
>
> 30-dbus will go away, so that's not an issue.
>
> That leaves dbus-launch. I don't see why you would want to remove the
> binary? Is something on your system trying to call it, even if we
> remove 30-dbus?

Many programs run dbus-launch themselves if they don't see it already running, 
and then leave it up when they exit.

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Scott Lawrence

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